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The Winter Games are over, and while the top athletes will go down in Olympic history, Sochi’s best flubs, fails, and facial expressions are immortalized thanks to Twitter and the world’s best invention: Photoshop. Check out the best memes, GIFs, P… …

Not everyone is happy about Russian Olympic figure skater Adelina Sotnikova’s win during the ladies free skating event. A Change.org petition had accrued over a 1.7 million signatures as of Friday morning, crying foul over the 17-year-old’s win ove… …

I’m no skating official versed in technical skills on the ice, but like many watching the Sochi Olympics on TV, I’m happy to judge the contestants’ costumes — from Italy’s Carolina Kostner to the U.S.A.’s Gracie Gold to Russian pair skaters… …

Leave it to a skier from California to perfectly capture the spirit of the Sochi Winter Olympics. With the competition finished, Julia Mancuso decided to grab some waves. With the temperatures in Sochi balmy once again on Wednesday, Mancuso did some su… …

Norway’s Emil Hegle Svendsen edged French rival Martin Fourcade to win the last individual biathlon gold in Sochi. And we mean edged: both skiers times were exactly the same down to the tenth of a second. It was so close you have to look at this fini… …

Jamie Greubel has gotten plenty from bobsledding. Like World Cup medals, for example. A trip to the Olympics. And soon, a husband. The USA-2 women’s bobsled pilot was reuniting with her fiance — German bobsledder Christian Poser — on Friday, the … …

Breaking: Imperial walkers have descended on the Sochi Olympics, and there’s nary a T-47 airspeeder or tow cable in sight. Just kidding. This video is obviously a cute mashup of ski crashes and the Battle of Hoth as so gloriously featured in “Star … …